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3 minutes ago, LookinUp said:

This is more likely the case for 2026, not 2025.

I agree with those who think Basallo will get the Mayo treatment next year. He'll only be called up early if he's setting the AAA world on fire, which is possible I guess. Still, he has defense to work on just like Mayo does.

I hear you, but the big difference is that Mayo is the least valuable position in the lineup, and Basallo is the most valuable position in the lineup.  DH and Catcher.  I think Mayo will play the corners, and he can develop some feel, it just looks like the odds are against him starting a playoff game.  Even at 1B.  

And that's why I would have Basallo ranked above Mayo.  Elias is telling us that Mayo definitely ain't a 3B by not calling him up.  But Mayo can still have a great career.  

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Per Baseball America Samuel Basallo, C, Orioles 90th Percentile Exit Velocity: 106.7 mph (98th Percentile)  There were about a dozen hitters I skipped over in 90th percentile exit veloc

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Best part about this, he hit a home run the pitch before this but the umpire called it foul. everyone including the Jacksonville announcers thought it was a home run. So what do he do on the next pitc

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52 minutes ago, bpilktree67 said:

I can’t figure out who a good comp is to him.  Not lot of big switch hitting catchers.  

He isn’t a switch hitter, although I’m not sure that makes the quest for comps a whole lot easier. 

I’ve seen left-handed Gary Sanchez a couple times, although that could easily have just been the same person repeating himself on multiple occasions.

Just from a pure stature standpoint, he reminds me of Salvador Perez. I assume that comps like Sanchez are intended to convey skepticism about his catching ability — which I’m not sure was ever the case with Salvy. 

From the standpoint of age/level/production, he’s sort of unprecedented among catchers over the last 15 years or so. Jesus Montero was similarly young and precociously productive in the 2008ish time period — but he was also pretty famously using PEDs, which Sammy hopefully is not.

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1 hour ago, e16bball said:

He isn’t a switch hitter, although I’m not sure that makes the quest for comps a whole lot easier. 

I’ve seen left-handed Gary Sanchez a couple times, although that could easily have just been the same person repeating himself on multiple occasions.

Just from a pure stature standpoint, he reminds me of Salvador Perez. I assume that comps like Sanchez are intended to convey skepticism about his catching ability — which I’m not sure was ever the case with Salvy. 

From the standpoint of age/level/production, he’s sort of unprecedented among catchers over the last 15 years or so. Jesus Montero was similarly young and precociously productive in the 2008ish time period — but he was also pretty famously using PEDs, which Sammy hopefully is not.

With Basallo's potential impact on offense and his size I've thought about Mike Piazza as a potential comp. Piazza hit for a very high average and Basallo might not hit over .300, but power wise he could be a 30 to 40 home run hitter in his prime like Piazza.

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13 hours ago, Just Regular said:

Four hits as he works on those AA finishing touches.

He's starting to get on a heater again. It will be interesting if they decide to keep him at Bowie or give him a taste of AAA. I imagine they will give him a taste of AAA if he stays on this heater. 

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43 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

He's starting to get on a heater again. It will be interesting if they decide to keep him at Bowie or give him a taste of AAA. I imagine they will give him a taste of AAA if he stays on this heater. 

He’s having a fine season but he really hasn’t had an extended heater like he had at Aberdeen last year.

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47 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

He's starting to get on a heater again. It will be interesting if they decide to keep him at Bowie or give him a taste of AAA. I imagine they will give him a taste of AAA if he stays on this heater. 

AAA season runs a week longer, so hopefully he ends up in Norfolk after the Baysox season ends if he doesn't get there before.

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4 hours ago, MurphDogg said:

AAA season runs a week longer, so hopefully he ends up in Norfolk after the Baysox season ends if he doesn't get there before.

That’s exactly what happened with his Bowie promotion last year.  

I know Basallo got a late start this year playing catcher due to some elbow issues, but he’s really played a lot less at C this year and has done a lot of DHing, which he never did last year.  

2023: 95 starts, 67 at C, 28 at 1B.

2024: 86 starts, 37 at C, 26 at DH, 23 at 1B.

Even if you look a just July and August, only 11 of his 22 games have been at C.

 

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